“Could we retain them on a long-term basis so we can actually address homelessness?” he said in an interview. “The means are there, it’s just a question whether we have the political will to do that.”
“A lot of people have been talking about ‘when will life go back to normal?’ ” he said. “But from a homelessness perspective, normal wasn’t any good. Normal was people left on the street.” She would like to see B.C. follow the lead of Toronto and purchase empty hotel sites to house more homeless people.
GlobeBC Maybe those so called advocates should have spent more time helping these people find housing than they have politicizing the issue and encouraging them to set up camps.